I’m sticking with you

It’s our wedding anniversary today.

Engaging gear

The weather is back – rain and wind and gloom, gloom, gloom. I feel a bit like the weather myself, having had very little sleep. One of the effects of the Fast days is that I am extra alert and buzzing when I don’t wish to be, and am wide-awake all night. Well, in this …

Still Quiet

There is little happening today. The weather remains beautiful. I planned to bake onion bread today ready to make Melba Toast on Wednesday. Mr L has taken over the kitchen however and is stripping what remains of the cork tile flooring. So I have been sitting here with my Thrummed Sock, making some kind of …

The Quiet Life

Things continue in a subdued vein here. We like to take our pleasures quietly… I blogged some knitting notes over at Sanday Spinners: the completion of Mr L’s socks and the start of a new pair, and also some yarn purchases and my plans for the yarn. The new socks are to be done quickly, …

Best Laid

Today’s Plan was to make sausage rolls for this afternoon’s Spinning Group meeting. In turn this made Yesterday’s Plan the pre-making of the Puff Pastry. Unfortunately, I had forgotten that the Fitness Kick currently in operation means that I have stopped buying fats. I had no lard and insufficient butter with which to make a …

Bountiful

Having laid the first egg of the season, at least one chook is doing her job – and doing it well. That egg was followed by a second one yesterday and a third today.  It looks as though omelette season is upon us! Omelettes make a good Fast Day meal… Today is a Fast Day …